Monday, June 9, 2008
Random
This baby is never coming! We put new plants outside that we got from the nursery and I think they look great. Apparently my cherry tomatoe plants have some bug, daniel is going to try to spray them and hope they live. Life is pretty mundane right now, its getting a bit hotter Alexander is getting more and more bored everyday, but only a few more days and he will have his Auntie Lete and Amma here to entertain him. That will be a refreshing change for him and me. Anyway thats all, I will take pictures of the plants when they get bigger, we got some kind of palm tree too, not the fan kind, I really like it. Anyway Go Celtics.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Daniels Job
I am just posting a few pictures of me at Work. This is Daniel by the way. I really enjoy the work aspect of my job. I enjoy being outside and not stuck in the office all day, but having the office option available to me if it gets to hot outside. What I really like about the job is seeing the success of my work, being able to see the fruits of my labors. It is just nice to see accomplishments from my crew and me. What I don't like about my work is trying to please 3 or 4 different people on the same project who all have different opinions about how the Landscaping should be done. For example in the last picture it is a beautiful potted Bougainvillea bush on the pool deck at one of the properties I work at. I think it looks beautiful, and that is after weeks or months of training my crew how to prune for flowers, fertilizing, and water stressing it just a little to get maximum flowers. Apparently now it needs to be trimmed down to just twigs because it looks "overgrown". So this is what I deal with on a daily basis at my job. And it is not enough that I have to satisfy 3 or 4 different opinions at each property, sometimes those opinions change. Oh well, as long as the properties look good to me.
The other pictures are of some coconut tree pruning we do around the poolside at our properties. Normally we use a bucket truck because it is way more efficient. When we can't though we go up the trees. You will notice the one picture of me being a great supervisor. My hands were sweating just watching him go up the tree. In another picture you will see one of the guys truly enjoying the fruits of his labor. It was funny because this was one of the last trees we were doing and there was a crowd watching us prune and knock the coconuts off (apparently the hotels really worry about coconuts falling off trees and hitting a guest in the head) and when one of workers opened one up and drank from it all the guests came over and asked of they could try one. So there we were cutting off coconut tops so guest could drink from them. One of these days I am going to get trained on climbing trees and soon you will see Daniel up in a tree pruning the coconuts.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Eva's Crib
We put Eva's crib up yesterday and Alexander helped so I took some pictures and one video. He just got this little kid drill so he was very excited to help. He was concentrating in most of the pictures but you will get the point. The sad thing was that he thought it was for him. He kept saying night night and when we read to him for the night on our bed like we do every night he went to the crib with his blanket. He started loading it full of toys to prepare for the night too. But I think he now understands its not for him. Anyway enjoy the pictures.
Miriam
Miriam
Sorry I just had issuses uploading my pictures and video but they should be up now. ok so it won't let me upload my video right now so I will upload it later I have tried 4 times so maybe I need to take a break.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Our Camera
Hi Everyone,
Well our camera is broken. Sometimes it works we have no idea what happened. Alexander would swing it around and smash the screen but it was still intact and working fine until a few days ago. Some kind of mechanical error, I don't know if moisture got in or if the batterie is over or just nothing and it broken. SOOOO I have no idea how much we will blog on here now, probably still a good amount but good luck getting pictures of Eva when she comes, maybe my mother will get here before Eva does and we can use their camera. We will see. I registered at the hospital and the crib comes here today so it is an exciting day, we are officially or technically ready for the baby. We still have many things we need to get but we have the essentials for a week of a new born.
Today Alexander and I (Miriam) went swimming at the pool for play group. He loved it and was good all day. Hopefully he wont be too tormented by this new baby. He has no idea she is coming but I hope he does well with it. We tell him Eva or the baby is in my stomach but I think he thinks it means he has a baby in his stomach too because he often points to his belly and says baby. I think he will enjoy her company when she gets a bit bigger and he can play with her. Less boredom around the house for him.
Miriam
Well our camera is broken. Sometimes it works we have no idea what happened. Alexander would swing it around and smash the screen but it was still intact and working fine until a few days ago. Some kind of mechanical error, I don't know if moisture got in or if the batterie is over or just nothing and it broken. SOOOO I have no idea how much we will blog on here now, probably still a good amount but good luck getting pictures of Eva when she comes, maybe my mother will get here before Eva does and we can use their camera. We will see. I registered at the hospital and the crib comes here today so it is an exciting day, we are officially or technically ready for the baby. We still have many things we need to get but we have the essentials for a week of a new born.
Today Alexander and I (Miriam) went swimming at the pool for play group. He loved it and was good all day. Hopefully he wont be too tormented by this new baby. He has no idea she is coming but I hope he does well with it. We tell him Eva or the baby is in my stomach but I think he thinks it means he has a baby in his stomach too because he often points to his belly and says baby. I think he will enjoy her company when she gets a bit bigger and he can play with her. Less boredom around the house for him.
Miriam
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Typhoons
So I was thinking about Typhoons today because Iceland had an earthquake of 8.1 today and look to the right of the screen and there are utube things. One of them at the top is some guy filming part of the 1993 typhoon Yuri here on Guam. He was on the beach at the time so check it out. The winds in that typhoon got up to 175 miles an hour. But apparently there was a pretty bad one in 2002. People here are not as terrified about them as everyone else who doesn't have to experience them so I figure with proper preparations and food storage and especially water storage we will survive it. So far the earthquakes we had felt barely shake the house so I trust that all the cement and steel bars they stick in the house will keep us out of harms way during the phoons (my new nickname for them).
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Venting and informing
Venting
First this is a random post which is allowed because well it my/our blog. Don't call me (you can call daniel) but don't call me before 9 in the morning my time unless you are dying, dead or on your way to Guam within 24 hours to visit. Otherwise you will be on my angry list for the next year. I am pregnant and like sleep and only seem to sleep in the early hours of the morning now (it cools down a lot then) Alexander generally wakes up and 9 so you can wake me up then but not before.
Informing
Here are some fun facts as Daniel likes to call them. They generally make you shocked or depressed but here they are. We went and did a big grocery run last night to 3 stores here is Guam and I just wanted to let you know how much some things cost here. First the crappy milk (well not the on the shelf kind) but the crappiest chilled milk which is what Bubba will willing drink is 5.79 a gallon which is not that bad. Daniel's milk (which really doesn't taste that great) is 4.70 for half a gallon and when he is lucky he gets the best milk (which still doesn't taste very good) This milk costs 5.79 a half gallon. So we spend about 30 dollars a week on milk. Ok so then we bought eggs. They are 3.70 for a dozen. Now I am bored of telling you about our grocery trip things are generally more expensive here as we all know. Our gas is at 4.49 a gallon (for the cheap stuff) There is no cheap gas station they all stay the same. The gas prices since we have been here have gone up every 2 weeks- month and each time it is about 20 cents. so by christmas we will probably be at 6 dollars a gallon. These are depressing facts but true facts. Oh and the electric is really high here. We pay about 300 a month and we live in a realtively small 3 bedroom house and don't use a dryer. However, the good news is that our water bill is about 15 dollars a month so I guess it all sort of evens out in the end. Something weird though is that our rent just went down about 80 dollars a month. This doesn't really affect us because we don't pay rent but it was weird when I went to pay rent because she told me it went down so she had to credit me for the next month. Things work a bit strangely out here. We like it here a lot but are still getting used to the way things run here.
Our thoughts on Guam
We still enjoy it here and are glad we came. We love being able to go to the beach every saturday and just relaxing there. It is something we can all do and enjoy. I like not having to drive very far to get places. Lately I haven't been driving anywhere unless I have to because I am so pregnant and somewhat uncomfortable (that was an understatement). So that really helps save on gas. Daniel enjoys the work aspect of his job and I will leave it at that.
Our new callings
We both recieved callings as soon as we got back from Utah. Daniel was called as the Gospel doctrine teacher and I was called as the 1st counselor in Young Women's. It was a bit overwhelming especially coming from Utah wards where the most responsibility we ever got in a calling was helping in the library every other week. I enjoy Daniel's lessons though. We are in Alma and he LOVES Alma so he shows a lot of passion when teaching. It is funny because Our class usually has President Hopuate who is the Area Authority (70's) over Guam and the Mariana Islands. He is usually sitting right up front and Daniel knows he is there. Last week we had the mission president in our class and Daniel likes to use the big guys as his examples to keep peoples attention so we were learning about Alma and he asked President Marshall what he would do if his sons were as bad as Alma was. And as you all know Daniel shakes, not our of nervousness but just because he does and so everyone notices and thinks he is that nervous. So the big guys always make comments when he teaches and come and tell him what an excellent job he did teaching that day. It makes me laugh because he is very nervous because of the Big guys in the branch who come to church everyweek but he is very good. I enjoy his classes he is very knowledgable in the scriptures so I am never nervous for him. So Daniel and I are very busy in our callings now which is good, we haven't been for 4 years now so its a welcomed change (well for me, Daniel says he still wants to pierce his ear and wear purple shirts to church). He is especially nervous because they are planning or hoping to arrange a stake here and President Hopuate and Marshall come up to us and ask us how long we will be here. Now that Daniel teaches us all they especially have been coming up to us even more to see how we are doing when the baby is due etc. So its going well here and we are happy for the most part. Alexander finally doesn't cry when he goes to nursery so that helps a lot.
Baby on the way
Ok now the whole Eva thing. Well I am going to my every week appointments now. Everything is fine, in the last week I lost 4 pounds somehow, I think its the new calling and bubba and the heat makes your appetite go away. I am quite sick of being pregnant although I was sick of being pregnant 2 weeks in so that is nothing new. The only problem is that I at least get 8 hours of sleep everynight now and I really enjoy that. I am uncomfortable most of the time but I do get the sleep. As soon as Eva comes I will not sleep a full nights sleep for at least 6 monthes so I am trying to enjoy the uncomfortable time now with just me and bubba all day and then Daniel when he comes home. I am excited for Eva to come but nervous about the big change. I am sure it will be fine. I don't know how much blogging I will do with two demanding children, I am sure I will do it after a few months but I don't know about the beginning. Everything is healthy with me and Eva though. It is probably gross to most but I am dialated at a 2.5 now. My due date is still technically the 23rd although the last ultra sound said the 14th. Who knows really. However, my midwife (thats what they use here even when you request an OBGYN, OBGYN's are only used for high risk) anyway she said they will induce me on the 29th if Eva hasn't come yet so I know that I will have this baby within the month. So that is all. Wow this was a long blog and no pictures (sorry daniel took the camera so I couldn't go taking pictures of Bubba or the wild boonie dogs running around outside).
Until Next time,
Miriam Reeves
First this is a random post which is allowed because well it my/our blog. Don't call me (you can call daniel) but don't call me before 9 in the morning my time unless you are dying, dead or on your way to Guam within 24 hours to visit. Otherwise you will be on my angry list for the next year. I am pregnant and like sleep and only seem to sleep in the early hours of the morning now (it cools down a lot then) Alexander generally wakes up and 9 so you can wake me up then but not before.
Informing
Here are some fun facts as Daniel likes to call them. They generally make you shocked or depressed but here they are. We went and did a big grocery run last night to 3 stores here is Guam and I just wanted to let you know how much some things cost here. First the crappy milk (well not the on the shelf kind) but the crappiest chilled milk which is what Bubba will willing drink is 5.79 a gallon which is not that bad. Daniel's milk (which really doesn't taste that great) is 4.70 for half a gallon and when he is lucky he gets the best milk (which still doesn't taste very good) This milk costs 5.79 a half gallon. So we spend about 30 dollars a week on milk. Ok so then we bought eggs. They are 3.70 for a dozen. Now I am bored of telling you about our grocery trip things are generally more expensive here as we all know. Our gas is at 4.49 a gallon (for the cheap stuff) There is no cheap gas station they all stay the same. The gas prices since we have been here have gone up every 2 weeks- month and each time it is about 20 cents. so by christmas we will probably be at 6 dollars a gallon. These are depressing facts but true facts. Oh and the electric is really high here. We pay about 300 a month and we live in a realtively small 3 bedroom house and don't use a dryer. However, the good news is that our water bill is about 15 dollars a month so I guess it all sort of evens out in the end. Something weird though is that our rent just went down about 80 dollars a month. This doesn't really affect us because we don't pay rent but it was weird when I went to pay rent because she told me it went down so she had to credit me for the next month. Things work a bit strangely out here. We like it here a lot but are still getting used to the way things run here.
Our thoughts on Guam
We still enjoy it here and are glad we came. We love being able to go to the beach every saturday and just relaxing there. It is something we can all do and enjoy. I like not having to drive very far to get places. Lately I haven't been driving anywhere unless I have to because I am so pregnant and somewhat uncomfortable (that was an understatement). So that really helps save on gas. Daniel enjoys the work aspect of his job and I will leave it at that.
Our new callings
We both recieved callings as soon as we got back from Utah. Daniel was called as the Gospel doctrine teacher and I was called as the 1st counselor in Young Women's. It was a bit overwhelming especially coming from Utah wards where the most responsibility we ever got in a calling was helping in the library every other week. I enjoy Daniel's lessons though. We are in Alma and he LOVES Alma so he shows a lot of passion when teaching. It is funny because Our class usually has President Hopuate who is the Area Authority (70's) over Guam and the Mariana Islands. He is usually sitting right up front and Daniel knows he is there. Last week we had the mission president in our class and Daniel likes to use the big guys as his examples to keep peoples attention so we were learning about Alma and he asked President Marshall what he would do if his sons were as bad as Alma was. And as you all know Daniel shakes, not our of nervousness but just because he does and so everyone notices and thinks he is that nervous. So the big guys always make comments when he teaches and come and tell him what an excellent job he did teaching that day. It makes me laugh because he is very nervous because of the Big guys in the branch who come to church everyweek but he is very good. I enjoy his classes he is very knowledgable in the scriptures so I am never nervous for him. So Daniel and I are very busy in our callings now which is good, we haven't been for 4 years now so its a welcomed change (well for me, Daniel says he still wants to pierce his ear and wear purple shirts to church). He is especially nervous because they are planning or hoping to arrange a stake here and President Hopuate and Marshall come up to us and ask us how long we will be here. Now that Daniel teaches us all they especially have been coming up to us even more to see how we are doing when the baby is due etc. So its going well here and we are happy for the most part. Alexander finally doesn't cry when he goes to nursery so that helps a lot.
Baby on the way
Ok now the whole Eva thing. Well I am going to my every week appointments now. Everything is fine, in the last week I lost 4 pounds somehow, I think its the new calling and bubba and the heat makes your appetite go away. I am quite sick of being pregnant although I was sick of being pregnant 2 weeks in so that is nothing new. The only problem is that I at least get 8 hours of sleep everynight now and I really enjoy that. I am uncomfortable most of the time but I do get the sleep. As soon as Eva comes I will not sleep a full nights sleep for at least 6 monthes so I am trying to enjoy the uncomfortable time now with just me and bubba all day and then Daniel when he comes home. I am excited for Eva to come but nervous about the big change. I am sure it will be fine. I don't know how much blogging I will do with two demanding children, I am sure I will do it after a few months but I don't know about the beginning. Everything is healthy with me and Eva though. It is probably gross to most but I am dialated at a 2.5 now. My due date is still technically the 23rd although the last ultra sound said the 14th. Who knows really. However, my midwife (thats what they use here even when you request an OBGYN, OBGYN's are only used for high risk) anyway she said they will induce me on the 29th if Eva hasn't come yet so I know that I will have this baby within the month. So that is all. Wow this was a long blog and no pictures (sorry daniel took the camera so I couldn't go taking pictures of Bubba or the wild boonie dogs running around outside).
Until Next time,
Miriam Reeves
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
It rained today
It rained today and I let Alexander play in it because it was raining and still 84 degrees. I took a few pictures, he was drenched and he loved it. The rain is nice and full out here or however you want to say it.
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